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Mendelsohn said that there was no specific impetus for the petition, which had 1,045 signatures last night, but that the FFIPP was becoming increasingly concerned about the constraints on universities’ ability to operate—particularly after the construction of the separation wall between Israeli and Palestinian territories...
...Monday by launching rocket attacks at Israeli military installations along the northern border. And Iraqi demonstrators in Mosul and Basra took to the streets, vowing to retaliate by attacking U.S. interests in Iraq. Shiite members of the Iraqi Governing Council even warned that the killing of Yassin could add impetus to violence in Iraq. Adnan al-Assadi a Council member from the Shiite Dawa party said that militants would use the Yassin assassination to justify new attacks on the U.S. And Iraqi outrage over Yassin's killing was hardly confined to the "Sunni Triangle" that has nurtured the insurgency against...
...hardware store. He's less a good guy than a control freak. In his last act as marshal, he hangs a horse thief without trial, so a mob won't get the satisfaction of lynching him. Does he want to serve justice or just give chaos the finger? The impetus to law, Deadwood suggests, is as much one as the other...
Stewart got a hot tip. her first mistake, clearly, was to sell the ImClone stock, given the impetus for doing so. The bio-tech firm that was then run by her friend Sam Waksal had been riding high on its promising cancer drug. But on Dec. 26, 2001, Waksal got wind that the FDA was going to reject his company's application to move forward with its drug. The Waksal family sent word to Bacanovic, their broker as well as Stewart's, and tried to sell $7.3 million of ImClone stock. Waksal has since pleaded guilty to securities fraud...
...make sure that all of us, not just the government, but all Greeks, contribute in order to make good Games and secure Games. WON'T THIS CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT SLOW THE PREPARATION PROCESS? The change of government may in fact speed up the process, simply because of the new impetus and the new momentum. DO YOU PLAN TO ALTER THE GOVERNMENT'S ROLE IN THE PREPARATIONS? There is no time to even think about that. I have asked all the key people, even politically appointed ones, to remain. I'm not happy that some of them have resigned. But that...